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Scotland is a nation rich in traditions, customs and homespun words of wisdom! With our at-a-glance guide to Scottish sayings, you’ll soon feel at home.

Craic

Pronounced crack, is a Scots word for news or gossip. So if anyone asks you ‘What’s the craic?’ you can tell them you’re coming to Bonnie Scotland for summer school in the beautiful capital, affectionately nicknamed ‘Auld Reekie’.

Swap city for scenery and embark on a Highland adventure – the perfect tonic to the buzz of Edinburgh life.

Edinburgh is a city of varied delights: winding cobbled streets steeped in history, elegant Georgian walkways with chic boutiques, dramatic castle searing into the skyline, the country’s finest museums, galleries and nightlife. Few places hum with energy like Scotland’s capital.

Scotland is both famous and infamous for its cuisine. Listed below are some Scottish delicacies for you to try during your stay here.

Haggis

The classic. Haggis (sheeps stomach), neeps (turnips) and tatties (potatoes) is the most famous dish in Scotland. Although the idea of eating the minced offal of a sheep may be off-putting many people find that they enjoy the taste. For a less intense experience try vegetarian haggis which is surprisingly spicy.

As the study of the economy as a whole, macroeconomics involves dealing with great complexity. Millions of individuals and businesses take decisions each day to produce goods, to buy and sell, and to offer and accept jobs. From a psychological point of view their decisions may have far from simple motivations that are also influenced by the choices and opinions of others. These decisions in turn affect the constraints under which others make theirs and all have to be made with a view to a future filled with irreducible uncertainty.

Should a government treat its debt in the same way as a household? If we ‘max out our credit card’ then we have little choice but to reduce spending immediately, but is this the same for a government? Have indebted governments in Europe been correct to impose ‘austerity’ on their populations by cutting expenditure on services and benefits?